Heidi Lockwood

Dr. Heidi Howkins Lockwood is a Professor in the Philosophy Department and Graduate Coordinator for Women’s & Gender Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She teaches courses in feminist pedagogy, gender studies, the meaning of life, metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and the ethics of information technology. Her research in philosophy is related to the structural limits of models for rational knowledge. Her work in women’s & gender studies focuses on Title IX advocacy and exploring ways to address the problem of power-based sexual harassment and misconduct in educational institutions. Dr. Lockwood originally started a PhD with a focus on provability logic at MIT, but left academia in the early 90s due to a #MeToo problem. She completed her PhD at Yale in 2009. The decade-long hiatus between MIT and Yale was spent as a professional high-altitude mountaineer climbing 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalayas with support from Mountain Hardwear and the National Geographic Society.